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· 6 min read · · Featured ·

AI Governance in Two Sentences

I use AI coding agents all day. So does my team. So does almost everyone I talk to. The agent reads the code, writes the fix, runs the tests, installs packages, and pushes the branch. It does all of this as me. It has my SSH keys, my cloud passwords, and every file on my laptop.

People ask me what "AI governance" means for a company like that. My answer has become short.

Governance means two things. You can say what your agents did. And you can stop the things they should not do. Everything else is paperwork about those two sentences.

AI Governance in Two Sentences
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The Verdict Is the Easy Part

Two days ago we put a paste box on the open internet. Type a shell command, hit Evaluate, get a verdict — BLOCK, AUDIT, or ALLOW. Same on a second tab for MCP tool calls: tool name, JSON-style args, evaluate, verdict.

The Verdict Is the Easy Part